Broken Heart Love Quotes

• You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Relationship, Broken Heart

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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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• The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Love, Inspiring, Sad

  "Oprah Magazine", 2004.

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• For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

  Dennis Quaid

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  "Quaid: Split From Ryan Was 'Like Death'". W Magazine Interview, abcnews.go.com. July 19, 2001.

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• Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Jean de La Fontaine (2013). “Selected Fables: A Dual-Language Book”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Sad, Broken Heart

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.

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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• I hate the day, because it lendeth light
  To see all things, but not my love to see.

  Edmund Spenser

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Edmund Spenser (1849). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings”, p.440

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• I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

  Rita Rudner

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

  Richard Wilbur

  Break Up, I Miss You, Broken Heart

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love, Positive, Break Up

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1445, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

  Gilbert Parker

  Broken Heart, Pride, Broken Love

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

  James M. Barrie

  Love, Happiness, Broken Heart

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.215, Jazzybee Verlag

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• No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  FaceBook post by Faraaz Kazi from Sep 20, 2012

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• Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Depression

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• The heart was made to be broken.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moving On, Break Up, Broken Heart

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

  Violeta Parra

  Cute Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

  Jim Henson

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Positive, Beautiful

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• Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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